June 30, 2005 Cupertino, CA -- Luminous Networks, a provider of packet-ring access platforms for Ethernet service delivery and data, voice, and video service aggregation, recently announced that its platforms have been selected by North American service providers Idacomm, Northern Cablevision, and United Utilities.
"These customers are part of the accelerating market trend to deploy high quality, scalable, and manageable access networks as a means to deliver many new network-based, content rich services to residences and businesses," comments Chris Stark, President and CEO of Luminous Networks.
Luminous says the new customers will primarily deploy its PacketWave E500 Series Packet Ring Access platforms. The company says the platform's compact access devices support speeds up to 2.5-Gbit/sec, with both fixed and modular 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet application connections. Additionally, the platforms support 8- and 24-port T1/E1 modules, as well as a DS3 module.
Other platforms to be deployed include the company's PacketWave M-Series Packet Ring Switching platforms, with up to 16 modular slots for services and multiple, sub-tending packet rings, and the company's E100 Series Packet Ring Access platform, a 1 RU unit with ring speeds up to 1-Gbit/sec with 10/100/100 Fast Ethernet and T1/E1 application ports. The company says that all customers will employ its Luminous Management System for intuitive monitoring and rapid provisioning of nodes, services, and QoS level assignment.
Idacomm, the communications subsidiary of Idacorp (Boise, ID) provides connectivity platforms over a fiber-optic network throughout eleven Western U.S. States. Idacomm says it selected the Luminous platform because it will allow rapid provisioning of custom fiber connectivity for wholesale carrier transport, DSL aggregation, VoIP transport, high-speed Internet, video-conferencing, and LAN and WAN Ethernet applications. Idacomm says that, using the Luminous Management System (LMS), it will be able to provide services to its customers in a fraction of the time normally associated with traditional telecom service provisioning.
Northern Cablevision (Edmonton, Canada) provides high-speed Internet, digital cable, and cable television services to communities throughout the province of Alberta, Canada. In addition to providing packet-based services to businesses and residences, the Northern Cablevision network is also a major broadband connectivity provider for schools, provincial government offices, and libraries funded by the Alberta SuperNet project. The provider says it selected the Luminous platform to enable multiple, latency-sensitive broadband service offerings while keeping network and operational costs in check. The provider says the success Luminous has seen in the U.S. with major Cable/MSO providers through its strategic partner Scientific Atlanta was also a deciding factor in its selection.
United Utilities provides traditional telephony, broadband data services, and cellular services to over 60 Alaskan communities with a network covering over 150,000 square miles. The provider says it will deploy the Luminous platforms for efficient and scalable network transport and aggregation applications. The provider says the Luminous platforms, with selectable optics, provide some of the longest span lengths node per ring capacities in the industry, with the ability to span over 200 km and support over 210 nodes per ring. In addition, the provider says the Luminous PacketWave products support the extended temperature ranges necessary to meet the severe temperatures found in United Utilities' service areas. The provider says the platforms also provide packet-based transport with quality of service levels for priority voice and data service, without the need for extra ring capacity, thus removing idle network bandwidth.